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Deltrap, Tim (author)Despite the fact that product sounds have been shown to have a significant impact on the experience of products, product sounds are rarely considered in design projects and design education at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. Research through literature review and expert interviews revealed that product sound design requires an...master thesis 2024
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Zhu, C. (author), Klapwijk, R.M. (author), Silva-Ordaz, Miroslava (author), Spandaw, J.G. (author), de Vries, M.J. (author)Spatial thinking is ubiquitous in design. Design education across all age groups encompasses a range of spatially challenging activities, such as forming and modifying mental representations of ideas, and visualizing the scenarios of design prototypes being used. While extensive research has examined the cognitive processes of spatial...journal article 2024
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Frascara, Jorge (author), Gardien, Paul (author), Noël, Guillermina (author), Rosenberg, Daniel (author), Stappers, P.J. (author), Wilde, Danielle (author)Design skills and methods have been at the conceptual foundation of the design discipline(s) for at least the past half century. Over this period, design has also changed, focusing on new outcomes, serving new goals, and addressing different scales and broader application areas. On the one hand, there is a large set of methods and tools; on the...conference paper 2024
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Bendor, R. (author), Lupetti, M.L. (author)Speculative design is an emerging form of critical material engagement with possible futures. Designers working speculatively call attention to current and future sociotechnical dilemmas, and aim to provoke debate about the moral, political and ethical implications of sociotechnical innovation. Despite the popularity of speculative design and...journal article 2024
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Anwar-Hameed, Amir (author)Financial literacy is an essential component in design innovation projects, holding the potential to transform both the practice and education of design. The capacity to make effective financial decisions, encompassing knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy, is pivotal in the context of innovation (Warmath & Zimmerman, 2019). This capacity...master thesis 2023
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Kulkarni, Nupura (author)Reflective writing plays a vital role in the development of designers, enabling them to evaluate their experiences, enhance their learning, and foster professional growth. However, traditional methods of assessing reflective writing have limitations in terms of reliability and objectivity. To address this gap, this research project aims to...master thesis 2023
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van Mook, Megan (author)Digital literacy has emerged as an indispensable skill in the 21st-century workforce, compelling educational institutions to adapt their curricula and incorporate digital literacy into their teaching methodologies. This research abstract specifically addresses the challenge of integrating digital literacy into the secondary educational course...master thesis 2023
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Faludi, Jeremy (author), Acaroglu, Leyla (author), Gardien, Paul (author), Rapela, Ana (author), Sumter, Deborah (author), Cooper, Cindy (author)The Future of Design Education working group on sustainability developed recommendations for integrating sustainability into higher education design curricula. The recommendations provide a foundation for design instruction, using well-established evidence-based tools, methods, and mindsets that apply to professional practice and support...journal article 2023
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Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Xue, H. (author), Xin, X (author)This paper introduces a five-day intensive course, conducted over five years from 2018 to 2022, aimed at teaching emotion-driven design (EDD) to graduate students with diverse disciplinary backgrounds at Beijing Normal University. EDD is the practice of designing products or services that are informed by user or consumer emotions and/or aim to...journal article 2023
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Zhu, C. (author), Klapwijk, R.M. (author)Encoding intangible data variables with visual, spatial, and physical properties demands a high level of spatial reasoning. The ability to reason spatially is widely deemed critical to science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) learning. While much research has explored the relationship between learning with...conference paper 2023
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Li, Xueliang (author), Xue, H. (author)This paper presents an eight-day design studio that teaches heuristic evaluation of games to third-year bachelor students at the School of Design, Southern University of Science and Technology. Through this course, students gain the first-hand experiences of developing heuristics for games through online survey and using them in idea generation...conference paper 2023
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Cannatella, D. (author), Nijhuis, S. (author)This chapter draws on three different design studios that focus on the Pearl River Delta to discuss what kind of knowledge has been generated within them, and how they can be used systematically as a method to address the region’s complex challenges. The three studios differ in their objectives, duration and structure, but are linked by a...book chapter 2023
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Murray-Rust, D.S. (author), Lupetti, M.L. (author), Nicenboim, I. (author), Hoog, Wouter van der (author)Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are increasingly integrated into the functioning of physical and digital products, creating unprecedented opportunities for interaction and functionality. However, there is a challenge for designers to ideate within this creative landscape, balancing the possibilities of technology with...journal article 2023
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Klapwijk, R.M. (author), Stables, Kay (author)In this chapter we focus on the importance of the human capacity of design capability and how this can be fostered through design and technology education. Historic undervaluing of developing design capability in formal schooling is highlighted and counteracted by identifying recent recognition of embodied cognition and the role design education...book chapter 2023
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Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Xue, H. (author), Xin, X (author), Liu, W.L. (author)This paper presents a five-day intense course that teaches “emotion-driven design”<br/>(EDD) to graduate students with a broad variety of disciplinary backgrounds at the<br/>Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University. We introduce seven principles<br/>drawn from design-relevant emotion knowledge that informed the design of the<br/>course’s...conference paper 2022
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Rooij, R.M. (author), Mooij, S.C. (author)Teaching design skills to engineering students has long been one of the main building blocks of the bachelor curriculums at the TU Delft faculties of Industrial Design Engineering and Architecture & the Built Environment. We observe that our students achieve high-level (design) competencies during their study time at TU Delft. But we also...conference paper 2022
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van den Bergh, M.R.K. (author), van der Bijl-Brouwer, M. (author), Price, R.A. (author)While the Pandemic has increased awareness towards student wellbeing in higher education (HE), it also exacerbated existing challenges. Specifically, students pursuing their master graduation thesis often find themselves isolated and overwhelmed due to the individualistic nature of their project and the pressure to create a ‘masterpiece’. In...conference paper 2022
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van der Bijl-Brouwer, M. (author)Transdisciplinary research is claimed to be essential in tackling today’s complex societal challenges. Transdisciplinarity includes collaboration and integration across academic disciplines, non-academic ways of knowing, and the ‘real world’ of citizens, professionals and other stakeholders. Design can contribute to transdisciplinarity by...conference paper 2022
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van Boeijen, A.G.C. (author)This paper presents two master graduation design projects that address unconscious biases (UB) in the context of design education related to two topics: gender and skin colour. In addition to their sensitivity to exclusion and injustice, two design students brought in their analytical, design research and creativity skills to find solutions...conference paper 2022
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Zhu, C. (author), Klapwijk, R.M. (author)Spatial thinking is embedded in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) learning. Design and Technology education inherently encompasses a wide range of spatial activities, such as mentally transforming objects and materials to form representations of design ideas, visually communicating ideas, and creating 2D and 3D...conference paper 2022